美国B级片教父塞缪尔·富勒作品,1953年第18届威尼斯电影节铜狮奖。
警察,小偷,电影制作人被阴错阳差地搞在了一起……最后还惹出了跟国家机密有关的乱子。主人公只是想拍电影,却陷入现实的奇遇之中,最后从中领悟生活与电影的有趣关系。
这片子在imdb上7.7,算是很高了。 豆瓣上的简洁有大错误,哪里来的电影拍摄,还说是喜剧片,搞得我抱着诙谐的心态看这电影,结果发现完全不对劲…… 又是被奇奇怪怪的简介坑害的观影体验。 这部戏最让人喜欢和留下印象的还是配角们。 moe一段在警察局指认犯人以及临终前的独白十分出色 女主被正在吃饭的那个男的坑钱的那个片段也挺有意思。做个中间人就赚了好多刀,而且还用筷子夹钱。最后没忘吃一个叉烧包。 最后,我还是感到女主对skip的产生情愫而有疑惑……就很迷哎……
影片一开始便是小偷skip在拥挤的电车上偷走了女主candy包里的皮夹,结果皮夹里装有一份国家机密胶片,这份胶片掌握在共产党组织手中,女士只不过被利用而对胶片和共产党身份的朋友joe毫不知情。然后candy告知了joe自己被偷。害怕机密泄漏,身份暴露的joe要candy想办法找到小偷要回胶片,另一边一个一直跟踪candy的便衣警察目睹了行窃过程后,和同事们试图找到小偷以拿回证物并顺藤摸瓜将共党份子一网打尽。警察找来了贩卖廉价领带的身处社会底层的老妇人moe,moe有偿的提供了8个小偷信息,警察锁定了小偷skip。就这样,小偷skip成为了所有人的目标......candy找到moe询问到了skip的下落,在见到了skip后,candy爱上了skip,而skip一心只想通过胶片敲诈到一大笔钱,并且声称candy是共党份子,这让不知情的candy十分生气。面对巨额的敲诈,心急的joe打算亲自找到skip,而爱上了skip的candy将moe的地址当作skip的地址告诉了joe,并告知了moe的危险劝她离开,但moe并没有逃离,她提醒skip不要和共党产生联系,面对找上门来的joe,moe拒绝透露skip的下落,这是她的底线,面对共党的原则,她死前孤寂而无望的神情极富感染力。而candy为了保护skip不惜打昏了skip拿走胶片交给了警察,警察让她把胶片交给joe,以此引诱joe和同伙行动以便一网打尽。结果因为少了一格胶片,joe愤怒的开枪将candy打伤,而skip来到医院得知candy为了保护自己而中弹后,来了深情一吻,然后在电车上偷走了joe的手枪,并将他和同伙痛扁一番后交给了警察,然后和candy双宿双飞……这是一个典型的黑色电影,一个阴差阳错的事件揭露和激发了各个角色的秘密与欲望。然后以各自不同的出发点产生交集并逐渐将故事推至高潮。而影片中加入的共党以及爱国主义的政治元素实则不过是起到了推动剧情,合理化角色行为的作用,塞缪尔.福勒并不是要拍摄一部政治电影,他只是单纯的想讲好一个故事而已。
Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller, two American moviemakers extraordinaire, were born one year part, both lauded for their distinctive styles, here they offer two ‘50s film-noir features, both concern themselves with a hardboiled male protagonist, whose dismal world-view is softened by a good-hearted female character, but their attitudes couldn’t be more divergent.
In Ray’s ON DANGEROUS GROUND, Robert Ryan plays a tough city cop Jim Wilson, unlike his colleagues, he is a loner, case-hardened by the seedy milieu and seamy riffraff he encounters daily, his occupational hazard begins to tell, as he is more than willing to enforce violence upon those who doesn’t cooperate (suspects and witnesses alike).
Relegated by his superior to investigate an up-state murder case, Jim takes the talking-to with a sneer, but his callous carapace begins to thaw out by Mary Malden (Lupino), the blind sister of the unbalanced offender Danny (Williams). He promises her he will do all in his power to safeguard Danny’s safety (who should be warehoused), while the victim’s grieving father Walter Brent (Bond) bays for blood.
Whether it is a futile promise or not, Jim is impressed by Mary’s poised phlegm and unbowed strength, which awakes his compassion and makes him whole again, a happy ending is hammered out, but not before both are given some headspace in the aftermath. Ray and screenwriter Bezzerides’ straightforward moral lesson is a tad oversimple but Ryan sports the distinction of being a lodestone of masculine gallantry, and Lupino is an exemplar of fortitude and grace, who also pluckily takes the directorial chair when Ray is stricken with a malady.
If Ray’s film is a handsome-made, conventional studio fare from the Hollywood assembly which is adequately instructive (e.g. the film is very prescient to flag up police brutality), Fuller’s PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET is far more ebullient and impudent, physical violence erupts at the drop of a hot (don’t blink when women get shot and battered).
Lumping a pickpocket, a stool pigeon, a girl with a questionable past, some commies and red-baiting from the law enforcement into a scramble, this cat-and-mouse game of obtaining a microfilm is a slap on the face of blind patriotism. Skip McCoy (Widmark), an ex-con and hardened pickpocket, is not going to give away the said film he pilfers from Candy (Peters) on the metro simply because it is a treason if he refuses to do so, not if he can exact a handsome payoff from the valuable. No police sweet-talk or coercing can persuade him. He even scoffs at the promise of clean slate from the police captain Dan Tiger (Vye, who look comically miffed and cannot suffer lowlife gladly).
A weasel-faced Widmark has just the right attributes to make Skip a deadbeat hero, he has nothing to lose, doesn’t even live a semblance of a life, he is one cool desperado who doesn’t care about his own life. He is the obverse of Ryan’s toughie Wilson since they belong to the opposites of the law, yet, both are consumed by lonesomeness and cynicism. Here, it is Candy’s unusual fidelity that delivers Skip from his status quo, their growing romance doesn’t have a solid ground, but one can see that Fuller, in spite of the violent, macho world he constructs, is profoundly a sentimentalist, Skip and Candy share that “made-for-each-other” vibe, they are cut from the same cloth and once their paths are crossed, it is only natural they stick together and canoodle whenever they feel like to. Peters really endeavors to deliver Candy’s transition as smooth and persuasive as possible, her voluptuousness is a vulgar one, but that doesn’t cheapen Candy’s heroic act, in a sense, she is the true agency in the movie by demonstrating her affection and loyalty unyieldingly.
There is honor among thieves, even for Moe (Ritter), the wiseacre stoolie (her way of doing business with Captain Tiger is the comic relief the movie is hurt for), she earns her living (and preparing for her death) candidly, no bad blood between her and Skip, and she is more than befuddled when Candy knocks on her door and overshares her feelings.
Ritter is meritoriously nominated for an Oscar on the strength of her impactful impersonation, Moe’s world-weariness is so infectious even though we don’t want to credit it, we cannot help imagining the worst. Moe’s fate also points up how the anti-Red brainwash works (or any kind of brainwash), she is indoctrinated to dislike something she doesn’t even know of, and is killed because of that benightedness, Fuller always knows his way of sending his veiled message.
Both Ray and Fuller show their dab hands, ON DANGEROUS GROUND has several widely impressive landscape compositions while PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET is adept at zooming in on the pickpocketing close-ups with rapid editing to simulate veracity. But both films are tainted by its stock designation of characters of both genders, but Fuller’s work leaves more reverberations and betrays his maverick perspicacity.
referential entries: Ray’s THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948, 7.1/10); Fuller’s THE NAKED KISS (1964, 7.5/10), UNDERWORLD U.S.A. (1961, 6.7/10); Max Ophüls’ CAUGHT (1949, 7.7/10).
Title: On Dangerous Ground
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Director: Nicholas Ray
Screenwriter: A.I. Bezzerides
based on the novel by Gerald Butler
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography: George E. Diskant
Editing: Roland Gross
Cast:
Robert Ryan
Ida Lupino
Ward Bonds
Anthony Ross
Charles Kemper
Ed Begley
Sumner Williams
Richard Irving
Cleo Moore
Ian Wolfe
Rating: 6.8/10
Title: Pickup on South Street
Year: 1953
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Director/Screenwriter: Samuel Fuller
from a story by Dwight Taylor
Music: Leigh Harline
Cinematography: Joseph MacDonald
Editing: Nick DeMaggio
Cast:
Richard Widmark
Jean Peters
Thelma Ritter
Richard Kiley
Murvyn Vye
Willis Bouchey
Milburn Stone
Vic Perry
Rating: 7.5/10
Samuel Fuller把Zanuck 给他的原著剧本 Blaze of Glory 改成pickup(除了扒手之外还有好转/回升之意) on the southern street时 整个内核都有了改变 。
作为主线的SKIP和CANDY之间的关系有以下截图可以看出前后重要的转变:
FULLER在设定浓厚的麦卡锡时代 的整部戏 可以通过以下两出显见 “延后出镜”的场面调度来揣摩其态度:
框外(场外 目前)观者永不知的框内(场内 当时)的处境和感受 (危险和幸福的并存)
如果不喜欢塞缪尔.富勒(Samuel Fuller)的电影,那就等于你不喜欢电影....... 他的电影是对影像创造者本人的绝妙展现.即使那些激烈的,偏颇的和粗糙的观点,往往也是出于热情而不是莽撞..... 当你观看一部富勒作品的时候,你将面对最纯粹的电影,跟随情绪流动的影画.他的电影总是那么动荡,暴力,就如我们真正满怀激情的生活时,生命应有的姿态一样..... Martin Scorsese preface on Samuel Fuller's < A third face:my tale of writing,fighting,and filmmaking >
麥卡錫主義橫行產物。全片帶有著強烈的意識形態色彩,集合了驚險、黑色以及政治等元素。可見Fuller這個老傢夥就是這麼樂于將人物置身于絕望和崩潰為基礎的特殊位置上。真是服了這個士兵出身的悲觀主義者。
男主角真伟大 不象扒手像游侠
大学时候看到的福勒.当时的感觉居然是:::性感!记得richard widmark好侵犯性好渗透力的...喜欢这个演员啊!
塞缪尔·富勒的谍战犯罪片,获威尼斯铜狮奖。1.拍摄于麦卡锡主义时代,尽管导演本人不感兴趣政治,但从影片的共产党员人物形象与最终结局来看,还是完成了黑白分明的意识形态刻画任务。2.一部反类型的黑色电影,不存在蛇蝎美人,男女主最终共同成长,没有宿命与死灭,结局也很大团圆。3.大量运用特写与前推镜头,接近和体察角色。4.扒手在地铁中用报纸掩护遮挡的偷窃方法同质于布列松[扒手]。(7.0/10)
原来先让女人出去搏命随即再“放着我来!”就是牛逼哄哄的黑色电影了啊。
美国B级片教父塞缪尔·富勒作品,1953年第18届威尼斯电影节铜狮奖,是关于小偷、爱情、国家机密和暴力的故事。虽然影片故事带有强烈的意识形态的色彩,但是导演本人似乎无意去渲染反共情绪。相反,他仅仅是将其作为一种故事背景去表现。这部影片杂糅了这么多元素,却拍的异常精彩,很喜欢
8.7;努力生活
导演塞缪尔·富勒 号称美国B级片教父 果然很合我的口味 这是一个冷战时期的黑色故事 发生在纽约的地层社会 在多个对话场景中使用了“近推”的手法(近景推到特写)张力效果十足
老太婆被杀的那场戏印象最深...福勒很会牵动观众的情绪...
富勒的anti-femme气质很浓厚,表现在利诱威逼和推搡暴打。设想错了黑色电影套路,结局黑中有光明的设定却接受不能。
本片是美國B級片宗師富勒的黑色電影代表作之一,最大特色是在短小精悍的結構內,展現了富勒在黑色電影與諜戰片類型糅合的能力。此片通篇皆是充斥著簡潔明了的作風,對白精煉生動,攝影巧妙而具有活力,尤其大量較為的柔和的特寫,增加了演員彼此之間互動的真實性與親密感,臨近結局的跟蹤長鏡頭與從火車站追到鐵軌的暴力打鬥動人心弦,洋溢著一種急躁不安的氛圍。理查德威德馬克飾演的小偷不同於黑色電影的男主角總是有種憤世嫉俗的憂傷,而是自大,傲慢而又邪惡,簡皮特斯的女主角也不是一般作品中出現的蛇蠍心腸的美人,而是天真得令人憐愛。結局更是出現罕見的大團圓收尾,足見富勒的離經叛道。
从扒手开始,以扒手结束,很精彩的故事。这样的情节在当时很少见,集合了惊险、黑色以及政治等元素的黑色电影。女主角并不如传统一样心如蛇蝎,而是善良又伟大的。男主角实在太有魅力了,倒像游侠。
由偶然事件引发的一系列连锁事件,塞缪尔·富勒的重心在于通过类型叙述不断放置各种元素,结果呈现出一种混乱而野蛮(于人于事)的下层世界,其中廉价爱情的爱恨不断由矛盾转换也是一种通俗剧的经典结构;而黑泽明于49年拍摄的《野良犬》似乎也成为本片另一个有趣的互文。
最局促、简陋的空间带来的恰恰是最灵活自由的调度。各种精彩的视觉缝合。扶手作为勾连的符号,运用的实在够绝妙。小偷作为正面角色并且获得浪漫爱情的圆满结局,其实是对(反供)冷战意识形态的否定。
海报是最大的亮点。其他就这样吧!毕竟生活在现在,这类片看多了。
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这偷窃技术是师从Pickpocket中的米歇尔吧。真是喜欢本片,没有蛇蝎美人,有的是可爱有血性的女主,和一个道德底线低却如此侠客的男主。他是英雄,但结尾又未归到爱国热情,而是“谁让你揍老子女人”。女主中枪那场戏,干脆令人难忘
杰出的理查德 维德马克,一个被低估的美国演员,他的邪气怪笑是影史最精彩的表演瞬间。
黑色阴郁的整体氛围呼应卑劣混乱的底层世界,同时表达出导演富勒对社会的批判
女主还蛮灵的,精气神不输同时期的泰勒,还勇于破相。Thelma Ritter的确是影史第一女配角。